DocumentCode
3633767
Title
Simulation of a shipboard VHF antenna radiation pattern using a complete sailboat model
Author
Damir Senic;Antonio Sarolic
Author_Institution
University of Split, FESB - Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, Rudera Bo?kovica bb, 21000, Croatia
fYear
2009
Firstpage
65
Lastpage
69
Abstract
Mast-mounted shipboard VHF half-wave antenna along with the sailboat conducting structures was simulated in NEC. Antenna radiation pattern was analyzed based on the simulation results. The effects of ground plane (sea), mastantenna interaction and mast-sailboat interaction were investigated. Resulting vertical patterns in all cases have many distinct narrow lobes, contrary to the free-space antenna that has only one wide main lobe. This splitting of the main lobe was the most dramatic effect. The effects of mast and sailboat structure were minor in this configuration.
Keywords
"Antenna radiation patterns","Brain modeling","Boats","Sea measurements","Dipole antennas","National electric code","Pattern analysis","Analytical models","Safety","Marine vehicles"
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Software, Telecommunications & Computer Networks, 2009. SoftCOM 2009. 17th International Conference on
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-4973-6
Type
conf
Filename
5306818
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